You Took the Last Bus Home - by Brian Bilston (Paperback)

About the Book

You Took the Last Bus Home is the delightfully charming first collection of poetry from Brian Bilston, one of Britain's best-loved poets.

Book Synopsis

You Took the Last Bus Home is a collection of ingenious, hilarious, and touching poems from Brian Bilston, one of Britain's funniest and best-loved poets.
With endless wit, wisdom, and delightful wordplay, Bilston offers profound insights into the common joys and sorrows of modern life. Exploring themes as diverse as love, death, and the unbearable torment of forgetting to take out the trash, all of Bilston's poems are alive to the improbable nuances of the English language.
Constantly experimenting with poetic forms--from Venn diagrams to Scrabble tiles--this irresistibly charming collection of poems will make you ponder the very essence of the human condition in the twenty-first century.

About the Author

Brian Bilston is a poet and novelist. Beloved online, he has been described as Twitter's unofficial Poet Laureate. He has published several collections of poetry, including You Took the Last Bus Home, Alexa, What Is There to Know About Love?, Let Sleeping Cats Lie: Pet Poems, Days Like These: An Alternative Guide to the Year in 366 Poems, and a festive collection, And So This Is Christmas: 51 Seasonally Adjusted Poems. His debut novel, Diary of a Somebody, was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award. He has also published a collection of soccer poetry, 50 Ways to Score a Goal, and his acclaimed poem Refugees has been made into an illustrated book for children.